Saturday was National Adoption Day, and an Omaha couple just gave two more children a place to call home.

Kenneth and Felicia Merritt have taken guardianship to every child who walked into their home -- adopting No. 9 and No. 10 this weekend.

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Felicia Merritt, who works full-time as a school resource officer at Northwest High, said she is "crazy about her kids." The couple has two biological children, making it a total of a dozen, from diaper age to 30 years old.

The couple said it's never simple with a dozen kids, they need two vehicles to travel, and if they're going out to eat, it better be in an all-you-can-eat restaurant.

Felicia Merritt said 10 of her children still live at home, cycling through six loads of laundry a day and demolishing $400 worth of food per week.

"We fight about silly stuff like cleaning the kitchen and who's going to do the chores. (There are lots of) 'You're getting on my nerves' and 'You're too close to me.' It's not easy," 16-year-old Kenae Merritt said.

"If I can watch facial expressions when I'm interrogating them, I can tell who did what," Felicia Merritt said.

Felicia Merritt, who wasn't close to her mother, said what each child has done for her is fill a void that she's lived with her whole life.

"I know what it is to want and long for your mother to be there, so that allows me to get closer to them as well," Felicia Merritt said.

Addicted to adopting and the feeling of becoming a family Felicia Merritt said she wouldn't have it any other way.

"When you come to the Merritt home, this is it. This is the (last) stop (because) we'll take over and make sure everything is OK," the mother of 12 said.

State Health and Human Services said there are 250 children waiting to be adopted in Douglas and Sarpy counties alone.